alphaNames: Auxilliary functions for experiments with microtitre plates

In RTCA: Open-source toolkit to analyse data from xCELLigence System (RTCA)

Description

Functions to manipulate indices or names of microtitre plates

Usage

alphaNames(row = 8, column = 12, order=c("column","row"))
repairAlphaName(x)
alphaNames2Pos(x)
rowcol2pos(row = 1, column=1, plateFormat=c("96","384"))

Arguments

row	integer, row index, 1,...,8 for 96-well plates
column	integer, column index, 1,...,12 for 96-well plates
x	character, Well alpha name, in the form of [A-Z][0-9][0-9], like 'A01'
order	character, should the alpha names returned in a row-first or column-first order?
plateFormat	integer, the microtitre format, either 96 or 384

Details

alphaNames returns so-called alpha well names in the form of [A-H][0-9][0-9] (i.e., A01, C03, D11, H12) for microtitre plates. The order of returned alphaNames is controlled by the option order, which can be set either as col or row

repairAlphaName attempts to fix incomplete alpha well names. Now it is mainly used to fix well names missing the leading 0 of numeric index, like A1.

alphaName2Pos returns the row and column number of the given alpha well name, in the form of two-column data frame with row and col as colnames.

rowcol2pos returns the row-wise position index of given row and column index.

Value

See details

Author(s)

Jitao David Zhang [e-mail]

Examples

wells <- alphaNames()

repairAlphaName("A1")

alphaNames2Pos(c("A01","B02","C03","H12"))

rowcol2pos(3,1)

RTCA documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 7:52 p.m.